Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wenching, hard-drinking soldier, Sarit was also a masterly pro-Western politician who stabilized Thailand's chaotic government and sagging economy, rooted out official corruption and cracked down hard on Communist infiltration. In the "domino" view of Southeast Asia, according to which the collapse of one country could knock over all the others, Thailand alone stood firm, surrounded by tottering neighbors-Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Burma. When Sarit died last week at 55, the U.S. for the first time in five years was forced to worry whether Thailand would become another of Southeast Asia's wavering dominoes...
...first nation to establish a base there? Who pays damages if one country's space capsule crash-lands in another's biggest city? May political propaganda be beamed to earth from space? Or TV commercials? When the U.S. orbits a reconnaissance satellite, are the Russians entitled to knock it out if they can, like another U2? If space explorers meet a race of intelligent nonhumans, how are men and bug-eyed monsters to live together under the rule of law? Such questions were once the specialty of science-fiction writers; lately they have become the serious concern...
...Scott Appleton, 21, Texas, 6 ft. 3 in., 239 lbs. Says a report on Eller: "Tends to be lazy, but seems to play his best games when head-to-head with another outstanding lineman. Can go to 275 lbs." On Appleton: "Great lateral moves and pursuit. Almost impossible to knock off his feet." Also ranked high on the pro scouts' list are two small-college tackles: Buffalo's Gerry Philbin, 22 (6 ft. 2 in., 235 lbs.) and Louisville's Ken Kortas, 21 (6 ft. 4 in., 293 lbs.). "When a kid weighs as much as Kortas...
...essential linemen have also gained more time to heal. Captain Bill Southmayd was determined to knock down several Yalies last Saturday in spite of his injury, but now that his ankle is stronger his blocks should be harder...
Yale missed a big opportunity to take the lead early in the third quarter when it jumbled the ball on the Harvard six. Eager Harvard linemen rushed through to knock the ball loose on the handoff...